Presentations & Events

Recent

“Listening to Tom-Tom.”
In collaboration with the American Modern Opera Company. National Sawdust, Brooklyn, April 4, 2019.

“More Than the Promise of the American Myth: Rethinking Burleigh and Sheppard in the Second Gilded Age.”
Conference of the Harry T. Burleigh Society. Carnegie Hall, May Room, March 3, 2019.

“Black Activism and the Limits of Desegregation at the Metropolitan Opera.”
Exploring Opera and Beyond Symposium. Opera Wilmington, February 23, 2019.

“Black Activism and the Limits of Desegregation at the Metropolitan Opera.”
American Studies Association Conference. Atlanta, November 8, 2018.

“The Limits of Desegregation: Black Activism and the Metropolitan Opera.”
American Musicological Society Conference. San Antonio, November 2, 2018.

Organizer and Panelist, “Black Music and the Archive: New Access to Neglected Repertoires.”
New Music Gathering. Boston Conservatory, May 2018.

“Afrodiasporic History on the Operatic Stage: Shirley Graham’s Tom-Tom.”
Opera and Musical Theater in The United States Conference. Middle Tennessee State University, March 2018.

“Shirley Graham’s Tom-Tom (1932) and the Performance of Afrodiasporic History.”
African American Intellectual History Society Conference. Brandeis University, March 2018.

“‘Strange what cosmopolites music makes of us’: Racialized Listening in Nora Douglas Holt’s Music Criticism, 1917-1923.”
American Studies Association Conference. Chicago, November 2017.

“Porgy / Porgy & Bess.”
Mondays at Beinecke series. Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, April 2017.

“‘Aida Going Dixie’: Race, Casting, and Collaborative Protest.” Pop Conference. Museum of Pop Culture, Seattle, April 2017.

“Collective Imaginations: Reflections on Public Humanities at Yale.”
Critical Encounters series. Yale University, April 2017.

“‘Strange what cosmopolites music makes of us’: Racialized Listening in Nora Douglas Holt’s Music Criticism, 1917-1923.”
Society for American Music Conference. Montreal, March 2017.

“Transnational Activism on the Operatic Stage: Black Women Sing Aida.” African American Arts: Activism and Aesthetics Conference. Bucknell University, September 2016.